In my view the current situation, in a much-summarised form, is that regrettably, the protest movement lost the argument against the development after triggering the spending of a claimed £500,000 of taxpayers’ money on an enquiry.  They forced a necessary but ultimately futile detailed examination of the planning issues.  However, the inspector excluded the critical business plan from the deliberations. 

The District Council, County Council, Local Businesses, Regional Development Agency and ultimately the Government were convinced that the development would bring an exciting symbol of entrepreneurial endeavour to the County and the associated building and operational jobs.  I believe that this fact did not help the case against SnOasis.

The developer still claims that the project will proceed and that finance is not an issue.  He has stated that the need to agree all elements of the final design, before work commences on any structure, jeopardises the project.  Mid Suffolk Councillors made that a requirement to ensure the development was as proposed.

My view, and that of many others, is that in the current financial climate, it is almost impossible to imagine that the project could proceed.  

The District Council is clinging to the view that it will continue despite having yet to receive any of the detailed planning documents they expected in January.

The full input I made to the the enquiry is on the left menu.  My previous input to County Council and was almost identical